Lehman was an investment bank.

It can also be done multilaterally, by raising the infrastructure investment flows from the World Bank and the regional development banks (including the Inter American Development Bank, European Investment Bank, African Development Bank, and Asian Development Bank).

Front loaded public investment could be funded through an enhanced European Investment Bank.

The classic case is Britain s Royal Bank of Scotland, which is not an investment bank.

The European Investment Bank would be a good vehicle in addition to new project bonds to boost spending on major infrastructure projects (for example, in the energy sector).

An education investment bank is the place to start.

We propose an education investment bank to be established with the cooperation of the GPE and major international investment banks, capitalized in part by proceeds from a financial transaction tax (FTT), such as that proposed for the European Union.

An enlarged European Investment Bank could then co finance investments.

Meanwhile, the World Bank and the European Investment Bank have stopped lending to high emission coal plants.

But it paid a price for this bank funded investment boom.

An education investment bank can play a vital role in catalyzing both.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced a major trade package during his trip to Pyongyang last November, perhaps on the order of 10 billion. North Korea recently established the State Development Bank and Taepung International Investment Group (headed by a Korean Chinese businessman), charged with attracting foreign investment.

This year, the Bank will set another record for investment in developing countries.

Almaty is home to BTA Bank, which is the largest bank in Central Asia, Kazkommertsbank and other major banks.

Shifting to renewable energy sources will require enormous effort and major infrastructure investment.

One day a major bank, insurance company, or automaker announces a record loss.

ODA remains the major source of investment in infrastructure development in landlocked developing countries.

After all, China s major trading partners, international financial institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and senior Chinese officials themselves have long recognized the structural vulnerabilities caused by excessive investment and low household consumption.

Bank windows were shattered and hundreds blocked two major roads and the Ayalon highway.

The higher interest rates would also apply to corporate bonds and bank loans, weakening business investment.

Interest income includes all interest from various bank accounts and investment income earned on invested funds.

In particular, the Thai Exim Bank and the Board of Investment have been providing facilities (e.g. information, outward investment missions) to help Thai firms venture abroad.

China injected more than 46 billion into the China Development Bank and the China Everbright Bank through investments by its national SWF, the China Investment Corporation.

A massive liquidity injection by the government ensured that no major bank collapsed, and minor bank failures were administered in a surprisingly orderly fashion.

The West s major central banks the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, and the United States Federal Reserve should take this to heart.

The latter is the case in most of the multinational financial institutions like the World Bank Group, the African Development Bank, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

In that regard, the Bank was spearheading efforts to develop an appropriate investment framework for clean energy and sustainable development and identify pragmatic investment and financing options.

UNCTAD and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) launched in March 2005 a Joint African Investment Initiative to encourage greater investment by Japanese companies in Africa.

Little did I imagine that today, there would be no freestanding investment bank left on Wall Street.

World Bank (2004a). Strengthening the foundations for growth and private sector development investment climate and infrastructure development.

In November 2004, the European Investment Bank (EIB), working with the private bank BNP Paribas, announced that it would issue the world s first long term longevity bond.

Moreover, Chad and Cameroon were each to contribute 140m to the project, although this sum was paid entirely by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank.

Nor, therefore, is their interest in housing as a major speculative investment asset likely to change.

A major donor investment would be needed to ensure the economic viability of the Gaza Strip.

The IMF, the World Bank, and other international financial institutions, such as the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, as well as the European Central Bank and the European Commission, have worked together to stabilize the situation.

(b) Call on the international community, in particular the donor countries, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, European Investment Bank and related international financial institutions, to provide the necessary funds for the viability and sustainability of those programmes

China s leaders hope to control potential risks stemming from local government investment vehicles (LGIVs) by limiting bank lending.

The Brazilian treasury s massive funding of the National Development Bank also acted as a buffer against declining investment.

Consequently, nationalization of the central bank became a major platform of the British or French left.

There is no recent example, however, of a major central bank setting a numerical employment target.

Bank secrecy has been one of the major obstacles to criminal investigations in money laundering offences.

Every major economy must recognize that investment in green growth can create jobs and bolster economic development.

Moreover, although the World Bank accepted the country s reconstruction program called Horizon 2000 the money for it, from the European Investment Bank and Arab funds, has barely trickled in.

In recent months, the World Bank, the European Investment Bank, and the United States Export Import Bank have introduced policies that restrict financing of new coal fired power plants unless they can capture and store their CO2 emissions.

Such changes put pressure on universal banks to abandon riskier investment bank activities in order to operate more freely.